Career
The work of Ron Laboray has been displayed in museums, special project spaces, not for profits and galleries in cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago, Taiwan, Japan, Memphis, Tennessee Sadalia, and Saint Louis, Missouri. His exhibition "After The Civil Engineer" at the University of Missouri was reviewed in Art in America magazine. The website of Peter Miller Gallery in Chicago describes Laboray"s art as merging abstract painting and a pseudoscientific method to create a visual archive of popular culture.
This method appropriates existing laws found in sciences, like the Law of Superposition, and the artist"s sculptural mixed media mechanisms.
The mediums used range from the digital to plastic, aluminum, auto lacquer, decals and marker which are all metaphoric of popular culture. Abstract painting"s beautiful object collides with a color-coded archive based on mass culture elements like television, cinema. comic books and advertising.
Major group exhibition have included Terra Incognita at The Contemporary Art Museum, Street Louis included in the exhibition were Julie Mahretu, Lordy Rodriguez, and Mark Lombardi. Transpolyblu a Digital Exhibition including Wil Mentor, Sabina Ott, and Chuck Close.
Street Louis Magazine – Cameo: A Peek into the Studio of Ron LaborayNovember 2010 – by Hesse Caplinger
Art in America - April 2006 - review “ Ron Laboray at UMSL Street Louis” Mel Watkins
Chicago Tribune - May 13, 2005- “Ron Laboray Lets Data Drive His Abstractions” Alan G. Artner
River Front Times - Current ArtReview -Ron Laboray: After the Civil Engineer September 2005
Saint Louis Post Dispatch - July 14, 2002 Arts and Entertainment-Putting Art on the Map by Jeff Daniels
Chicago Sun-Times - February 2, 2001 Gallery Glance by Margaret Hawkins
New Art Examiner -May/June, 2001 Volume(s).28 # 8/9 Chicago"s West Loop Gate by Lori Waxman
Art Papers magazine - May/June, 2001 Volume(s).25.3 Reviews Central - Saint Louis by Jeffrey Huges.
